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Ever since President Nixon lifted the embargo on Chinese imports last month, Americans have wondered precisely what tempting goods the People's Republic could offer. Part of the answer arrived last week in San Francisco: 11,350 pounds of tinned and packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...
...money that Washington in effect would decide. Finance Minister Fukuda dismissed that talk as a zatsuon (grating noise). A Tokyo banker added that the idea of cutting U.S. shipments of raw materials to Japan was "reminiscent of the eve of Pearl Harbor, when the Roosevelt Administration placed an embargo against shipping scrap iron and oil to Japan. Nobody on either side of the Pacific," he said, "would be idiot enough to wish for a replay of that, except on the screen." Officially the Japanese line remained as stated recently by Fukuda: "In no corner of my brain is there...
Helium, the second lightest element, is most familiarly known as the gas that makes children's balloons rise to string-length heights. It also has scientific and military uses considered strategically important by the Federal Government. Helium has appeared on military embargo lists since before World War I, when the Allies used it in dirigibles.* Today it is used to lift weather balloons, to maintain pressure in liquid-propellant rockets and as a coolant in nuclear power plants. In liquid form, it provides supercool temperatures for laboratory experiments. Thus it seemed a sensible idea when in 1960 the Government...
...MeCOLOUGH: We have to show the Japanese that if they are going to dump television sets, we will put an absolute embargo on them. In my experience that is the only way the Japanese are going to negotiate. Until you get their attention, until you have the power to club them over the head, they are not going to negotiate...
American Optical, through its Austrian subsidiary, has sold medical research microscopes to China. Overseas branches of Monsanto have shipped a variety of chemicals, including materials for aspirin and rubber. The subsidiaries are forbidden by the U.S. Government to sell any of 600 "strategic items," but the embargo list leaves plenty of room for trade. General Motors, for example, sold $682,000 worth of diesel engines and spare parts in 1970 to Roberto Perlini Co., an Italian truck manufacturer, who sent them to China along with 80 Perlini trucks...